No-contest plea for marijuana charges

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Dec 20, 2013 at 12:01 AM

STOCKTON - A 53-year-old California man pleaded no contest Thursday to two marijuana-related charges, freeing him to be deported to Mexico to face allegations that he participated in the slayings of eight municipal government officials 13 years ago.

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STOCKTON - A 53-year-old California man pleaded no contest Thursday to two marijuana-related charges, freeing him to be deported to Mexico to face allegations that he participated in the slayings of eight municipal government officials 13 years ago.

Genaro Olaguez was immediately sentenced to consecutive 365-day jail terms after entering the pleas to possession of marijuana for sale and theft of utility services, San Joaquin County Deputy District Attorney Todd Turner said.

Turner said he told immigration officials they could pick up Olaguez at any time for deportation to Mexico. The overcrowded County Jail routinely releases inmates early, he noted, so "if they can get rid of somebody, they will."

Olaguez, whose last name is also listed as Olaguez-Rendon, was arrested by a U.S. Marshals Service task force this month on a warrant from Mexican officials on suspicion of killing a commissioner and seven other city officials in Sinaloa, Mexico, in May 2000.

Olaguez was arrested in January, along with his wife and two others, in connection with the operation of four houses in Stockton, where authorities found more than 900 marijuana plants and nearly 30 pounds of marijuana that was being prepared for sale.

Turner said Olaguez's wife, Andrea Rivera-Hernandez, was arrested by immigration officials Thursday on charges that she's in the country illegally. She still faces county marijuana charges.

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